U.S. History - First Semester Exam Review

Oldest permanent European settlement in the United States - founded by Spain

• St. Augustine

• Jamestown

• Boston

• Plymouth

The exchange of plants, animals, diseases, and technologies between the Americas and the rest of the world following Columbus's voyages.

• Amerigo Vespucci

• Protestant Reformation

• Christopher Columbus

• Columbian Exchange

1492 - Italian explorer - sailed for Spain - looking for trade route west to Asia - thought he landed in Asia he but landed in what is the present-day Bahamas

• Leif Ericson

• Martin Luther

• Christopher Columbus

• Amerigo Vespucci

1497 - Italian explorer- sailed around South America, realized it was a new continent (not Asia), the Americas are named after him

• Leif Ericson

• Henry Hudson

• Amerigo Vespucci

• Christopher Columbus

What is a colony?

• an economic policy under which nations sought to increase the wealth and power

• a group that does not agree with the beliefs of his or her leaders

• a group of people in one place who are ruled by another country somewhere else

• English Puritans who founded Plymouth for religious reasons

Which number on this map marks the area of colonial North America controlled by Great Britain around the year 1700?

• 1

• 2

• 3

• 4

What are the two main reasons that people came to the American colonies?

• economic opportunity and escape political persecution

• freedom of religion and economic opportunity

• freedom of religion and escape political persecution

How did the British economic and political practice of "salutary neglect" affect the American colonies from the settling of the colonies up to the 1750s?

• The British left the colonies alone as long as they were successful and profitable.

• The British enforced trade regulations in the colonies.

• Americans objected to the membership in the British Empire.

• The British continually intervened in American affairs.

Which monarch ruled Great Britain during the 1770's and the American Revolution?

• King James

• Queen Elizabeth

• Queen Mary

• King George III

Why did the king begin to tax the colonists in 1765?

• He strongly disliked the colonists that were living in the American colonies.

• He needed money to pay off war debts from the French and Indian War.

• He wanted more money for England to remodel his kingdom.

• He needed money to pay for the British soldiers to be housed in the American colonies.